It’s a good time for NaBloPoMo, because there seems to be a lot going on. Like:

WMF fundraiser starting very soon, and recent Annual Report released

The Free Software Foundation has releasedGFDL 1.3, an important step down the slow path of making Wikimedia content CC-BY-SA compatible. Joyous celebration outside the Wikimedia community, instant pessimism and nitpicking from within. Go figure.

sudden bursts of discussion on foundation-l, partly about the lack of discussion on foundation-l

It was a nice surprise to see the front page of English Wikipedia today:

I’m not sure who organises these things (well actually, I think Featured Articles still has its BDFL position, “Featured Articles Director”, who decides when which articles get to appear on the main page), but: nice work. It’s a nice, relatively subtle way to acknowledging this major event in US affairs without alienating the readership of the rest of the world.